Orsolya Gergely

• PhD In Sociology
• Lecturer at Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania

Although the entrepreneurial gender gap is decreasing in European economies, the obstacles faced by women entrepreneurs remain numerous and often differ from those encountered by men. The COVID-19 pandemic, and then the energy crisis, have made it even harder for women entrepreneurs to sustain their businesses and have added to the challenges of wo...

The first lockdown, conferred upon us by the COVID‐19 outbreak in March 2020, created a unique, 3‐month‐long, laboratory‐like situation that made gender relations and women's work especially relevant for social research. Full‐time employed parents who switched to working from home were in a unique position to renegotiate the division of housework,...

A koronavírus-járvány és a lezárások nők helyzetére gyakorolt hatását az elmúlt két évben egyre több kutatás vizsgálta világszerte, és mutatta ki mindazokat a költségeket – munkaerőpiaciakat és magánéletieket egyaránt –, amelyek nagyobb mértékben terhelték a nőket. A nők közül sokan dolgoztak a vírus által fenyegetettebb ágazatokban vagy veszítetté...

Proceedings of the Seventh Argumentor Conference held in Oradea/Nagyvárad, Romania, 16–17 September 2022

Purpose: During the first COVID-19-related lockdown in the spring of 2020, working parents of young children were in difficult situation when having to manage the multiple burdens of home-schooling, childcare, housework while working from home. In Hungary and in Romania, unpaid household tasks are considered to be women’s responsibility, intensive...

The paper addresses the issue of contamination fear within the context of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The everyday lives and feelings of the ethnic Hungarian population in Transylvania, Romania, were investigated with an online survey in the middle of the lockdown, in April 2020. In the search for the socioeconomic and demographic determinants of perc...

Cross-national studies emphasized that female entrepreneurs have experienced a major decrease in income, and there was a decline in market demand as well. The pandemic crisis increased the workload of women, and mainly those who raise small children did not have much choice: they had to invest time and energy in the family. The success of the strat...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the closure of educational institutions and the implementation of digital/online learning, some families were trapped within the walls of their home, doing either homeschooling or teleworking. For many parents, the place of work has changed, while the expectations have not. However, the conditions have become mu...

Due to the social distancing measures ordered as protection against mass infection during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak, most Hungarian families were confined to home quarantine. Schools, kindergartens, and nursery schools were closed between 16 March and early June. Because grandparents belonged to one of the most vulnerable groups, families were ask...

Az anyuvállalkozás olyan neoliberális és neokonzervatív eszmékre és politikákra adott egyfajta válasz, amelyek megnehezítik a nők számára munkavégzést gyerekvállalás után. Ezek közül megemlíthetjük a megfizethető minőségi gyermekgondozást vagy a rugalmas munkaidőt, megfelelő foglalkoztatás és bérezés hiányát. Ebben az összefüggésben az anyuvállalko...

Nistor Laura | Gergely Orsolya | Sántha Ágnes | Telegdy Balázs  ERDÉLYI MINDENNAPOK EGY VILÁGJÁRVÁNY IDEJÉN Online kérdőíves közvélemény-kutatás erdélyi magyarok körében a COVID-19 járvány kontextusában (2020. április 16-26.)

The analysis presents some of the results of an online survey regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, which was undertaken among ethnic Hungarians from Transylvania. The survey was based on a convenience sample and was realized between 16 and 26 April 2020, so during a specific period of the lockdown. Among others, the questionnaire asked the respondents...

The analysis is based on the data of a large-sample (N=1176) questionnaire survey conducted among male and female entrepreneurs in Szeklerland, based on a personal survey and a representative sample by county, settlement type and ethnicity (2018). One half of the respondents are women and the other is men. In addition to the survey , four focus gro...

We propose a sociological approach in order to analyse the group of female entrepreneurs in two Romanian counties. Our goal is-with this paper-to show the impact of traditional and less traditional gender roles, and mainly the impact of motherhood on the decision and strategy of setting up and running a business. Qualitative methods are used: inter...

We propose a sociological approach in order to analyse the group of female entrepreneurs in two Romanian counties. Our goal is-with this paper-to show the impact of traditional and less traditional gender roles, and mainly the impact of motherhood on the decision and strategy of setting up and running a business. Qualitative methods are used: inter...

The Sapiophile video blog1 was launched on 24 October 2016 by the PR team of the Miercurea Ciuc campus of Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania The vlog appeared on the Faculty’s YouTube channel2 and was promoted on the Facebook social networking site The vlog has already reached its second season, and there were presented more than 16 epi...

The social learning theory emphasizes that model giving or guiding has always been one of the most powerful means for transmitting values, for demonstrating and accentuating the expected attitudes, habits, thinking, and behaviour (Bandura, 1986; Crosswhite et. al., 2003). Studies have shown that a role model could motivate a teenager’s sporting hab...

Among the Hungarians from Szeklerland there is a saying: “The woman is not human”. Though everybody accentuates that this is only a joke, one still uses. And usually everybody is laughing about it. Rationally everyone agrees, of course, that the women are human being as well, they have the same rights, they are equal to men. But still the joke is “...

This article focuses on those aspects that are closely related to the food choices mothers make on daily basis. Everyday food choices, such as what we eat, how much we eat, what quality our food has, or where our food comes from, are highly influencing our life quality. For a better understanding of food-related behaviour, we have collected data th...

In this paper, a closed Facebook group will be presented and analysed, which has more than 2,000 members at this moment. This is a formal community on Facebook whose members do not know each other in a lot of cases; every woman can become a member who has a child and lives in Miercurea Ciuc (Romania, Harghita County) or in its closer surroundings....

Who could be a role model for the teenagers? Whose attitude, outer and inner values appear to the teenagers as an example to be followed? Has the media and media usage an impact on this? How can this be identified? We wanted to find out whether the pupils from our region have idols and, if so, who their icons and role models are, who the ones are t...

In Romania the macro social structural fluctuation after the change of regime in 1989 induced several social variations having the effect that the degradation of the state public sector became untenable. The secession from the state sectors, the evolution of private sectors started slowly and manifests itself as a slow process even nowadays. This p...